Quotes About Creation

acts. Looking at Noreen, you wondered why anyone ever bothered to draw or paint anything else but a woman's naked body.

Marketing is not the art of finding clever ways to dispose of what you make. It is the art of creating genuine customer value.

I think that at the bottom of all art lies the impulse to preserve.

And you are pieced together bit by bit Set against the evening Lovely and glowing, like a chain of gold. — Philip Larkin, from "(A Study in Light and Dark)," The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin , ed. Archie Burnett (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2012)

Give me back my young brother, hardand furious, with wide shoulders and a cursefor God and burning eyes that look uponall creation and say, You can have it.

The Incarnation is not about a God who steps in for a while to rescue a few souls from a godless world. It is a cosmic work of God in history that impacts the whole of creation for all time. Its particularity has consequences that are universal and eternal.

The closest we can come to the truth about reality is in the fictions that we create about it.

Our best feelings, which God himself has planted in our hearts, instinctively revolt against the thought that a God of infinite love and justice should create millions of immortal beings in his own image—probably more than half of the human race—in order to hurry them from the womb to the tomb, and from the tomb to everlasting doom!

The idea came to me complete from start to finish – a most unusual occurrence, as any writer will tell you, for ordinarily a story has to be struggled with, changed around and mixed up.

We made up our own religions and pretended they came from outside us.

En coupant du temps on en fabrique.

J'ai fait de ma fille un être de papier. J'ai tous les soirs transformé mon bureau en théâtre d'encre où se jouaient encore ses aventures inventées.

Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. — Walter Benjamin, "Unpacking My Library

The flower offered of itself And eloquently spoke Of Gods In languages of rainbows Perfumes And secret silence...

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

You are the spell the universe has cast.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

I now understand why God created shit and pee: to give even the desperate like me the possibility of refuge.

Neither heavenly nor earthly, neither mortal nor immortal have we created thee, so that thou mightest be free according to thy own will and honor, to be thy own creator and builder. To thee alone we gave growth and development depending on they own free will. Thou bearest in thee the germs of a universal life.

Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation.

Symbolic power is a power of creating things with words. It is only if it is true, that is, adequate to things, that a description can create things. In this sense, symbolic power is a power of consecration or revelation, a power to conceal or reveal things which are already there.

Ils ne voient pas que l'interrogation rituelle sur le lieu et le moment de l'apparition du personnage de l'artiste (opposé à l'artisan) se ramène en fait à la question des conditions économiques et sociales de la constitution progressive d'un champ artistique capable de fonder la croyance dans les pouvoirs quasi magiques qui sont reconnus à l'artiste.

producteur de la valeur de l'œuvre d'art n'est pas l'artiste mais le champ de production en tant qu'univers de croyance qui produit la valeur de l'œuvre d'art comme fétiche en produisant la croyance dans le pouvoir créateur de l'artiste.